Chapter 252: Champions League first win

After successfully winning four consecutive league victories, the Chelsea team returned to London to prepare for the first UEFA Champions League game of the new season, at home in the UEFA Champions League group stage with the Portuguese super giants Porto.
Since winning the Champions League under the leadership of Mourinho that year, the Portuguese Super League team Porto has gone forever on the road of "black shop".
The three major players of the Portuguese Super League Porto, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon have begun to conduct youth training as their main players.
Thanks to the convenience of Portuguese nationality, many South American players were directly recruited by a group of Portuguese clubs at a very young age for youth training and nationality.
When the European leagues generally have non-European player quota restrictions, many South American players have applied for a second citizenship as Portugal through playing in Portugal for a few years. Instead, they have entered the platform of the five major leagues as European players.
In this case, the Portuguese Super League has become the most famous youth training base in Europe, and even the entire grape has formed a pyramid-like league system.
The top three of the Portuguese Super League are at the top of the league. There are a large number of "youth demon" in the youth training system waiting for the opportunity to compete. The team will also be interspersed with some powerful and experienced veterans to play, not only every season Everyone can make a lot of money by selling people, but the team's record is not too bad, at least a team like Porto, as long as they are not selling too hard, they will be in the Portuguese Super League and get the qualifications of the Champions League. , Even divided into a good group, working hard, may not be able to enter the Champions League knockout.
Under the top three of the Portuguese Super League, there are many people in the Portuguese Super League. Even the middle and upper reaches of the Portuguese Super League, among their lineups, there are many youth demon who are training for the top three. After all, a team is also a season. As far as there are more than a dozen fixed list players, and for the obviously rich Portuguese Super Three, the redundant youth players will be directly loaned to the corresponding level of the Portuguese Super League according to their talents. For the three giants of the Portuguese Super League, the number of players on loan will be determined according to the relationship between the clubs.
This means that in the competition for the championship of the Portuguese Super League, Porto and Benfica of the three giants occupy a more favorable position, because these two clubs have more surplus players in the youth training system and can influence more teams. Sporting Lisbon, when encountering most of the Portuguese Super League teams, does not have much enthusiasm, and can only rely on their own strength to fight hard.
Usually, the mid-upstream team’s target is very obvious. For teams like Guimarães and Braga that are in the second echelon all year round, the tough attribute of the season is very obvious, which is to help support their big brother to hold the other team. For the two giants, one point is one point. In the end, the competition for the Portuguese Super League championship may have occurred within the dragged points.
After all, football is played by people, and sometimes emotional factors still have a great influence. For example, players full of Porto branding, even if they transfer or loan to other Portuguese super teams, naturally they will be merciful when facing Porto. Faced with a rival team like Benfica, it's natural and bloody.
For the same reason, refer to the internal struggles of the Western Super League. Many teams will choose different fighting methods when facing specific opponents.
Just like the team that Wu Sanshi joined, it is a gesture of giving points when it meets Real Madrid, while facing Barcelona, ​​it is playing hard.
In the Portuguese Super League, the pressure is not too great for the Porto team, in the last round of the league, a decisive rotation, fully prepared for this group match with Chelsea.
In the Champions League this season, Chelsea were drawn into the team and assigned to the D team. There is no team that can pose a threat to Chelsea.
The Cyprus team Atletico Hellenic is recognized as a point-sending boy, while Porto and Atletico Madrid, in terms of team strength, are not on the same level for Chelsea.
As long as Chelsea play steadily, the group's first place is basically a grip.
In terms of current strength comparison, after years of blood loss, Atletico Madrid's strength at this time is not too strong. At least according to UEFA's official prediction before the game, Porto's lineup strength should still be slightly stronger than that of Madrid. Competitive.
Therefore, Chelsea’s home game against Porto can also be seen as a direct match between the two teams for the first place in the group.
For this game, Ancelotti did not dare to neglect the slightest, continue to be the main force of the team, Chelsea's main 442 lineup started.
The defense is still a solid combination, and the right back is starting the game with Bosingwa.
In midfield, Essien's midfielder attacked the trio, Lampard, Ballack, and Malouda.
The double forward is still Drogba's partner Anelka.
Chelsea, who played in the main lineup, still dominates the field when facing Porto’s iron barrel formation on the road. However, as a very talented Porto, although the players may not be kneaded because of changes every season Together, but there is no big problem in overall athletic ability.
In Yang Feng's eyes, although Porto's striker has shrunk back to participate in the defense at this time, Yang Feng did not dare to slack off looking at the two generals of the opponent's striker.
Falcao and Hulk, although both of them are still young and in the stage of training in Portugal, but in terms of their reputation in the future football, it is worth Yang Feng to use the greatest defensive attitude to deal with The two possible counterattacks, and a rare offensive round in Porto.
And Chelsea's offensive players, when facing the Porto defensive line composed of Guarin and Medles, they didn't have much to do for a while, and both sides played very restrained in the game.
In the boring first half of the game, the two teams did not create too many opportunities for the game. Porto completed the defensive tasks established before the game, while Chelsea needs to consider how the team's offense can be more effective.
In fact, although Chelsea’s offense is not too sharp, it is not as inactive as the performance in the first half. It is really the players' physical fitness in the new season. There have been some problems due to successive battles, but Ancelotti Just dare to change in several positions, in most positions, still choose to continue to use the main players to ensure that the team's tactical positioning is more optimal.
In the second half of the game, Chelsea players showed a warmer performance amidst the cheering of the audience. The front sights inserted by the wide players were also found. Lampard and Ballack in the middle of the game began to increase the threat of long-range shots. Great, everything is moving in Chelsea’s favor.
Of course, the pace of Chelsea’s offense has accelerated. While creating an offensive threat, it also gave Porto a lot of opportunities to counterattack after a successful defense. However, the number of times the Porto players passed the ball to each other in the frontcourt counterattack was really too few, so Although the players have good strength, facing Chelsea's close defense, without too much cooperation, there is not much threat.
Due to Chelsea’s pursuit of threats on the offensive end, Porto’s counterattack opportunities increased, Yang Feng’s side began to get busy in the second half.
However, Yang Feng guarded the back of the Chelsea defensive line. Under Porto’s direct counter-attack pass, directly based on his own judgment, he completed most of the clearing on the court, and a few could not control the drop point. Chelsea’s other players have basically completed their job.
Porto’s counterattack ~EbookFREE.me~ finally fell into place, and there are actually not many opportunities for real threats.
That is, Falcao, after receiving a ground pass from the side, under Yang Feng’s defense, he used his own frequency of action to open a goal space outside the penalty area, and directly chose to shoot. An external spin ball, before flying into the goal, was saved by Cech.
Chelsea's offense finally came to fruition in the 69th minute of the game.
On the left, Ashley Cole and Malouda set in at the same time, combined with the timely forward pressure of the Chelsea players from the center, caused great pressure on Porto’s defense, and this time on the left, it attracted enough in Malouda After his defensive attention, Ashley Cole went straight to the bottom, and after receiving a ball from Malouda, he started the ball directly from the side.
Drogba, who is in the penalty area, was at the penalty spot and directly inserted diagonally forward into the area in front of the goal, pressing the defensive player and directly hitting the goal.
The ball flew to the back point, the Porto goalkeeper was caught off guard, and Chelsea scored the first goal of the game!
Drogba carried out his good form as always, scoring consecutive goals in all competitions at the beginning of the season.
Hardly defending most of the game, but Chelsea took the lead in scoring a goal. In the last 20 minutes of the game, Porto could only continuously deploy troops to try to increase the number of offensive players to try to equalize the score.
And Ancelotti directly withdrew Anelka and Barack, replaced Alex and Mikel!
The five defenders and the double defensive midfielders, Chelsea's face of "divided slaves", made Porto's final attack without much effect.
1-0, Chelsea won their first Champions League victory this season, and they continue to maintain their winning streak in the new season!